How to Punctuate Dialogue Within a Quotation

This is one of those annoying punctuation elements that no one seems to talk about, yet here you are, writing an essay and trying to figure it out on your own.

The trick is simple, actually. Use regular quotation marks around the whole thing, and then single quotation marks to indicate dialogue within that. Hope this was helpful!

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[LeatherWoman]

Thank you I’m painting a picture that goes along with the theme of a poem and I’m quoting a deep quote from it that has dialogue in it and putting it on the painting so this helped me save time and not have to wait to ask my language arts teacher lol this helped a lot

[rmleighton]

Do you know of the WWI poem In Parentheses by David Jones. I didn’t no what the title meant and I looked and looked. But then I stumbled across it somewhere. Just like your channel. Cheers Richard in Canada.

[jerrysimpson]

"I say a comma is NOT needed after the parentheses (nor later after the word 'adding')" he said, adding "because the quotation marks already indicate the dialog is separate from the dialog tag."

[telltalebooks]

What if the quotation inside the quotation, inside the quotation is more than one paragraph long?